It doesn’t seem to matter where Canadians are taking their seats at the poker table in 2013, they just keep stacking chips and winning bricks of cash. Canada’s Xiao, also known as “Cheryl” Peng is currently poised and in great shape to bring home another title for our players at the Asian Poker Tour Macau $25,000HK Main Event with nearly double the chip count of her next closest competitor.
Peng leads the final 8 of 193 entries, with a first place prize of more than $1,000,000 HKD (~$135,000 CAD) reserved for today’s winner, with play resuming at 2:00PM local time at Level 21, with blinds at 5k/10k and a 1k ante.
| Xiao “Cheryl” Peng | (Chips) 1,048,000 | Canada |
| Henrik Tollefsen | 615,000 | Norway |
| Gang Jia | 568,000 | China |
| John Conkright | 550,000 | USA |
| Hui Wen | 448,000 | China |
| Feng Zhoa | 338,000 | Singapore |
| Phong “Turbo” Nguyen | 177,000 | USA |
| Alvin Cheam | 116,000 | Australia |
With 6 countries represented at this final table, it’s sure to be an exciting conclusion, so check back on this post for results and payouts to be posted later. Canadian Yu Pin Lin also finished in the money but we don’t have the prize information quite yet.
Be right back!
Asian Poker Tour Macau Results
| 1st | Henrik Tollefsen | Norway | 1,076,000 HK ~ $143,323 CAD |
| 2nd | John Conkright | USA | 620,000 HK ~ $82,584 CAD |
| 3rd | Hui Wen | China | 422,000 HK ~ $56,210 CAD |
| 4th | Phong “Turbo” Nguyen | USA | 301,000 HK ~ $40,093 CAD |
| 5th | Xiao “Cheryl” Peng | Canada | 245,000 HK ~ $32,634 CAD |
| 6th | Feng Zhoa | Singapore | 198,000 HK ~ $26,373 CAD |
| 7th | Alvin Cheam | Australia | 159,000 HK ~ $21,178 CAD |
| 8th | Jia Geng | China | 129,000 HK ~ $17,182 CAD |
Buy – in + 25,000 HK ~ $3,330 CAD Total Entries: 193
